Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 12:03:48 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "Knut A. Syed" <Knut.Syed@nhh.no> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2GB filesize limit? Message-ID: <20010531120348.E96927@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <s3ielt5eo2u.fsf@kas.nhh.no>; from Knut.Syed@nhh.no on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 01:48:41PM %2B0200 References: <200105310943.f4V9hgX04825@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <20010531033048.A89957@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010531033616.A90245@xor.obsecurity.org> <s3ielt5eo2u.fsf@kas.nhh.no>
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--9l24NVCWtSuIVIod Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 01:48:41PM +0200, Knut A. Syed wrote: > Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes: >=20 > > A quick test with truncate(1) shows that you can create sparse files > > up to 16TB in size. >=20 > ??? >=20 > $ truncate -s 8191G /tmp/foo.test > $ truncate -s 8192G /tmp/foo.test > truncate: /tmp/foo.test: File too large > $ uname -r > 4.3-RELEASE > $=20 xor# uname -a FreeBSD xor.obsecurity.org 4.3-RC FreeBSD 4.3-RC #13: Sat Apr 14 00:11:45 P= DT 2001 kkenn@xor.obsecurity.org:/mnt/src-4.x/sys/compile/MOLLARI i386 xor# truncate -s 16383G big xor# ls -l big -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 17591112302592 May 31 12:02 big (Okay, I meant (16TB - 1 byte) :-) Kris --9l24NVCWtSuIVIod Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7FpWTWry0BWjoQKURAuQLAJ9SaX2Q+h4yw4CjSfAQ2fG2ddVtcgCg0nPV thV+hdfVdVFybY5M+k3w9eY= =kLBb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --9l24NVCWtSuIVIod-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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